HERE’S A PICTURE OF BALD RIVER FALLS from my expedition yesterday. I plan to spend a lot more time in the Cherokee National Forest and areas around there. For whatever reason, I tend to go north rather than south on my photo expeditions, but that’s caused me to overlook all sorts of places that I should pay more attention to.

Because the big pictures seem to cause excessive page-load times for some of my foreign readers (who have not just dial-up, but 24K dialup) I’ve compressed this image rather savagely. I’ll have some higher quality stuff posted over at the Exposure Manager site later, but I haven’t had time to deal with that. I got my exams written early this year, which let me take yesterday off, but there’s still a lot of end-of-the-semester cleanup to be dealt with.

At any rate, my photography is a pale shadow of the stuff that Fletch does over at A Smoky Mountain Journal. But that’s the beauty of amateurism: I can do it anyway!